![]() 'Nuff said.ġ948 Max Fleischer Studios animates Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, using Robert L. ![]() John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn (his Oscar-winning Kringle), Natalie Wood. "You'll be sorry," chuckles Kris Kringle, producing two beautiful ladies from his sack. In the scene in question, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby tell the Jolly One that they don't believe in him. Ironically, he was never credited for his three official on-screen appearances as Santa - the third of which proved to be Munier's last on-screen role, in Paramount Pictures' Road to Utopia. breaks the sound-on-film barrier forever with Al Jolson as The Jazz Singer.ġ932 Walt Disney's Silly Symphony Santa's Workshop is released Wilfred Jackson directs this delightful animated short.ġ933 Wilfred Jackson directs Disney's animated Santa again, in The Night Before Christmas.ġ934 Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland: Ferdinand Munier is featured as Santa, as the boys mistake the Jolly One's request for 600 1"-tall soldiers to be an order for 100 6"-tall soldiers! Later on, of course, these big boys come in mighty handy when Toyland must be defended against the evil Bogeymen the battle is waged to the strains of Victor Herbert's March of the Toys.ġ946 According to the Internet Movie Database, Ferdy Munier was one of Hollywood's most sought-after Santas during the 1930s and 1940s. The Moore poem is adapted for the screen by Anne Hamilton Donnell - the first film adaptation to involve the concept of a 'motion picture screenplay.'ġ926 London: George Cooper directs a stage-on-film play about Santa which uses a primitive sound recording system.ġ927 Hollywood: Warner Bros. The film in which Bantock appears, again titled simply Santa Claus, includes scenes photographed in a limited, two-tone color process.ġ914 Menlo Park, New Jersey: Thomas Alva Edison supervises a production of The Night Before Christmas under the direction of Ashly Miller. The feature is 800 feet long, the longest-rolling such feature of that time, and involves special effects which utilize tabletop trick photography.ġ912 London: Leedham Bantock becomes the first film actor to be identified as having portrayed Santa Claus. Porter directs the first American-made feature film about Santa, an adaptation of Clement Clarke Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. It contains approximately 20 sequences featuring le Pere Noel.ġ905 Edwin S. Entitled Santa Claus or The Visit of SantaĬlaus, the 75-foot-long feature uses trick photography to depict the traditional elements associated with Santa.ġ900 Paris: Georges (Trip to the Moon) Melies produces a mammoth, 520-foot-long feature, Le Reve de Noel (The Christmas Dream). Smith produces the first major feature film entirely about Santa Claus. Here are the major milestones, to date, of Santa Claus' movie resume:ġ898 London: George A. All of these, wisely, have presented the Jolly Old Elf in a significantly positive vein. In addition, an innumerable amount of short subjects, both in live-action and animation, have been produced which feature Santa. These 'cynical' pictures have presented Santa, at best, as a victim or, at worst, as a serial killer. ![]() Countless motion pictures have been made involving Santa Claus - some of which have been known to exhibit a cynical, sometimes dark demeanor.
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